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The Chatner

Daniel Lavery
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A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.

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Halloween week in senior living

We read Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil” for our short story group on Monday afternoon.1

Paul said afterwards, “I don’t think it’s the possibility of evil. I think she’s evil!” This got a good laugh.

I put Bell, Book and Candl...

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Joseph’s brothers’ many coats of many colors

Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.

Now Jacob loved Jo...

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Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods

Originally from Lucian of Samosata’s Dialogues of the Gods (2nd century BCE). Fowler’s 1905 translation of the Dialogues here; Tooke’s 1820 translation here.

Prometheus and Zeus.

PROMETHEUS. [Stapled to a rock face, liver half-out, the...

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“A bird, a special bird. I don’t know what kind. Like a tender animal”: Children’s Rorschach Test Results from 1953

“two lions sorta climbing along. some bones. splosion”

Housekeeping begets housekeeping. You decide to clean the windows, and then the light streaming in the room gets so good you start to think the floors don’t really deserve that kind of...

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“Wool is our Hope”: Ranking the mottos of the livery companies of London

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